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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The Missing Picture (2013)

The Missing Picture (2013)

Director:Rithy Panh Country: CambodiaRuntime: 92 min

The Missing Picture (French: L'image
manquante) is a 2013 Cambodian-French documentary film directed by Rithy
Panh about the Khmer Rouge. It was screened in
the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it
won the top prize. It was also screened in the World Cinema section at
the 2013 Cinemanila International Film Festival where it won the Grand
Jury Prize.

The film has been selected as the Cambodian entry
for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, and was
nominated.

" My children, I look for as a lost picture. Or
rather, it is she who calls me . Is it because I'm 50 ? " This past
dating back as excessive wave, that's life of a young Cambodian broken
13 years , which in a few months , under the Khmer Rouge regime , see
disappear most of his family and survives alongside daily death and
horror in labor camps . But it is also the quiet happiness destroyed by
genocide, " the world before , music , sweetness , family " , whose
memory is no less dangerous for that was irretrievably lost . These
images that burn in memory? mass murder , the family home in Phnom Penh?
remain ever found in reality. Then the narrator filmmaker revives his
way. " With land and water, with the dead , rice fields, with live hands
, a man is doing. Just not much . Just want . His costume is white, his
dark tie . I would hold it against me. This is my father ... "

Through the magic of cinema, purifies the comment, the talent of a
sculptor who is born under the eye of the characters, sets and props
clay camera, then carefully painted, Rithy Pahn manages to evoke with
always contained a powerful and which for so many survivors, remains
inexpressible emotion: the suffering experienced day after day, the pain
of surviving, love for those lost. Counterpoint propaganda images
filmed by the regime, its tiny clay dolls, animated amazingly humanity
restore all the inhumanity of four years of Khmer Rouge terror.